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I would not, I'd rule an automatic success.

Nope. I haven't like the direction taken by 5e since Tasha, and I am almost always the DM, so we'll keep playing the 2014 version of 5e up to Xanathar fo the foreseeable future. In addition, I have a lot of DIY props such as character sheets and spell/action cards which are based on the 2014...

Loved the old-fashioned maps style, thanks!

There is no such thing as a failed (sub)class, only failed players. It is deceiving to judge a single ability in a vacuum, better to try and see how that ability adds to the base attack capabilities of the character. Also, it is quite normal that a player will think "I am an assassin, I an...

I have serious problems understanding what you wrote, so I will focus on the only thing I think I understood: "Short rest after every fight." > I haven't had a chance to try playing the game as the SO is playing it all the time, but I thought I heard that BG3 has a limit of 2 short rests...

I am not convinced it is a matter of quality. I have the feeling that the typical D&D hardcore customer (i.e. gamers who regularly buy books and products, not the picky ones like myself who wait ages before buying a new book in order to read reviews and really think twice if I'm going to use it...

I share your feelings, unsurprisingly to those few who haven't put me in their ignore list yet and therefore can still read my rants about the whole half-editions thing. A 50 years anniversary should be a big deal. There could be online celebrations, public events, re-prints of famous books...

I think the game would improve if WotC got completely terminated by Hasbro, 5.5e publication was cancelled, and D&D stopped being a business and never saw another official edition ever again but became public domain for the community to create endless variations to each one's own tastes. It...

Treat any ruleset as a toolset only.

I always hated it. Yes as a whole, but not necessarily in combat.

I have never used it, but the MM text troubles me a bit... I don't see a major impediment against letting a Dragon (or whoever) change shape into any type of humanoid, or possibly even into any individual humanoid (subject to possible checks by others to recognize that maybe it isn't really...

Exactly. Companies don't do charity, so neither do I.

Just mentioned it in another thread... it does have the premise of being a pretty funny series :) let's see how it goes after the first episode.

I think that it would be scary-interesting to know, how many of those who say 'no' would actually buy it if they didn't know it was AI generated. After all, billions of people buy food they don't really know how it's made.

I'll pass on the cookbook, but on a sort of related theme, I just found and watched the first episode of a quite funny new D&D-inspired animated series called "Delicious in Dungeons". If you have Netflix I recommend to give it a try :D

No restrictions by default, but as I usually run games only for casual players, it's a non-issue as they will only probably use my own core books + Volo + Xanathar.

What system? I think 5e is fine with characters that don't have very high primary stats, so you could play every class with those stats. I would probably take the opportunity to play a skilled character such as Ranger, Rogue or Bard.

Though... it sounds amazing for exactly a paranoid horror game (as long as you don’t turn it into an endless series of dice rolls).

That is in fact the starting and ending point of any game, even if it sounds a bit simplistic. I recommend reading the book "The Art of Game Design" if you haven't already. D&D quickly grew from Chainmail into something already so wide and encompassing that any attempts at narrowing down the...

I'm late to the thread but understand you haven't started playing 5e yet. It is one of my favourite editions so I'd like to see you try and hear how it goes. For the record, my favourite editions are BECMI, 3.0 and pre-Tasha 5e, very different from each other :) I do not consider 5e very...